About Me

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Who is Jialun Liu?

Dr. Jialun Liu is an associate professor in National in National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety (WTS), Wuhan University of Technology. From 2006 to 2010, he studied at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, specializing in Navigation Technology. From 2008 to 2010, he minored in Japanese at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He obtained his BSc and BA degrees in 2010. After that, he was then recommended to continue master education at Wuhan University of Technology in Traffic Engineering and Control. In 2012, he was founded by China Scholarship Council and started his PhD research at Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. In 2013, he received his MSc degree. From 2012 to 2017, Jialun Liu worked at the section of Ship Design, Operation, and Production in the department of Marine and Transportation Technology. From March 2017, he started working at Wuhan University of Technology. His research interests include ship maneuverability, motion control of autonomous ships, and CFD applications in maritime engineering. He received “Chutian Excellent Young Scholar” in 2017. He has published about 20 academic papers, including over 5 in international journals and 10 in international conferences. He has been appointed as reviewers of Ocean Engineering, Ships and Offshore Structures, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 32nd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics (SNH) and other international journals and conferences.

About My PhD Project

The project is intended to achieve knowledge of designing a well manoeuvrable inland ship with low fuel consumption. Compared to the economic concerns in ship design, ship manoeuvrability, which is closely related to navigation safety, is commonly less considered. In fact, a well manoeuvrable ship can make shipping companies benefit from improving operational performances, reducing cost of training, reducing downtime for repairs or modifications, and so on. Furthermore, research on inland ships, which have more complex ship configurations and navigation environment than sea-going ships, is even less. On the other hand, rudders as the main steering devices have a large impact on ship manoeuvring performance and fuel consumption. Unlike sea-going ships, inland vessels may have plenty options of rudder configurations. In this project, a systematic approach is going to be developed for analysing the impacts of rudder particulars, such as the profile, the number of rudders, and the aspect ratio, on manoeuvring capacity and fuel consumption.